Spanish Verbs

You will always find the meaning of the verb in the stem of the word. However, this stem never stands alone: the endings that give us information beyond the actual meaning are attached to it.

The ending -ar (verbs of the 1st group), -er (verbs of the 2nd group) or -ir (verbs of the 3rd group) after the stem of a verb indicate, for example, that it is the infinitive of a verb and thus show us according to which scheme the verb is conjugated.

Types of verbs

Full verbs

You can differentiate between the following types of full verbs:

– The transitive verbs have a direct object that you can easily locate with the question who or what?